Revised and updated to take account of the most recent advances, this 2nd edition includes material on scientific progress in research into climate, disturbance effects and landscape change, and recent ideas on the causes of lake salinity.
Revised and updated to take account of the most recent advances, this 2nd edition includes material on scientific progress in research into climate, disturbance effects and landscape change, and recent ideas on the causes of lake salinity.
This research explores the knowledge of medical techniques during the early 18th century in Boston, Massachusetts, a period of modernization and changing attitudes toward disease. By analyzing archaeoparasitological samples, written accounts, and artifacts associated with medici…
This dissertation concerns human-environment interactions in southeastern Portugal during the centuries following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire. In contrast to the feudal systems that developed across Western Europe outside Iberia, the Islamic polities that control…
This thesis is a study of the ways in which the Late (Neo-) Assyrian empire integrated agricultural practices into its imperial designs. The ancient kingdom of Late Assyria (ca. 900 - 600 BCE) was one of the world's first empires, and at its peak stretched across Iran, Syria, An…
This dissertation examines the changes in Graeco-Roman life that mark the end of antiquity in southern Asia Minor and northwest Syria using the archaeology of the countryside. By 700 CE, the eastern Roman empire had changed fundamentally: many cities had been largely abandoned, …
This text is a synthesis of the fundamenal method of theory and behavioural archaeology, organized in terms of the temporal order in which general topics have been addressed. The development of key ideas is recounted in relation to the historical contexts in which they emerged.
This book is a synthesis of the fundamental method and theory of behavioral archaeology, organized in terms of the temporal order in which general topics have been addressed. The development of key ideas is recounted in relation to the historical contexts in which they emerged. …